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by gybon 1073 days ago
He was a brilliant man, but let's not deify him. The Bletchley Park wartime intelligence work was a team effort, including a significant amount of cryptanalysis by Polish allies.
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Yeah lets not forget the Poles cracked one version of the enigma machines first.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/20/the-pole-who...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

However Govt's appear to not hold themselves accountable to the same standards of the legislation they invent, nor the Police nor the Crown Prosecution Service so besides not being had up before a court, they often at best just issue an apology for their Joint Enterprise actions, and there are a couple of sayings that go "talk is cheap" and "business as usual"!

The UK Law of Joint Enterprise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBwCmwpvMI